BUTLER
Reducing order fulfillment and inventory replenishment time in warehouses is imperative for businesses today to gain a competitive advantage. The GreyOrange Butler is an advanced robotic goods-to-person technology for automated inventory storage (putaway) and replenishment, picking and combining orders in fulfillment and distribution centres. The system seamlessly adapts to changing inventory profiles, demand patterns and peaks. Modular system architecture ensures bi-directional scalability to increase storage volume or fulfillment throughput independently, by adding more storage racks or robots, as needed.
Artificial Intelligence
Adapts intelligently in real-time to changing inventory profiles and order fulfillment patterns; ensures highly optimized throughput and storage utilization.
World-Class Safety and Reliability
Designed for conformance with safety and reliability standards and certification (e.g. CE, ANSI B56.5 and JIS D6802). utilization.
Transaction-Level Policy Control
Supports business requirements and order fulfillment policies: pick-by-time/after-time or pick-by-FIFO, expiry or manufacturing date.
Intelligent Charging
Maximizes robot availability through automatic opportunity charging. While a full charge ensures 8 hours of operation, a quick charge of 5 minutes ensures upto 5 hours of continuous operations.
Flexible Process Workflows
Adapts to operations process flows across a variety of industries.
Information Security
Encrypts data communication between the Butler system and customer’s enterprise systems, ensuring safety of sensitive customer data.
Designed for Multiple Markets
Supports user interface in Japanese and Chinese languages, apart from English.
Low Energy Consumption
Adapts intelligently in real-time to changing inventory profiles and order fulfillment patterns; ensures highly optimized throughput and storage utilization.
Benefits
High throughput
Enables faster and error-free order fulfillment, while minimizing product returns and refund.
Bi-Directional Growth
Supports on-demand increase in fulfillment throughput or storage independently, by increasing Butler robots or storage racks.
Versatility
Allows order fulfillment comprising a wide-range of SKUs, responding to variable demand, peaks and managing various packaging types.
Real-Time Inventory Audits
Supports SKU-level and location-level inventory audits and reconciliation without halting operations, significantly reducing inventory losses, damages, and misplacements.
No Downtime
Designed with built-in redundancy to mitigate single points of failure. Ensures continuous order fulfillment, even if some components undergo maintenance.
Seamless Integration
Supports REST-APIs for seamless integration with popular or proprietary warehouse management systems.
PRODUCTS
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B. ROBOTS
BUTLER ROBOTS
Butler Robots bring inventory stored in racks to the operator. With the throughput of up to 600 picks per hour per picker, the system improves productivity by 8-10 times.
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B. WAREHOUSE CONTROL SYSTEM
BUTLER WAREHOUSE CONTROL SYSTEM
BWCS controls the entire Butler system, ensuring error-free order fulfillment and inventory traceability. Its artificial intelligence and self-learning algorithms optimize inventory storage and throughput in real-time. The system seamlessly integrates with customer’s warehouse management systems.
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CHARGING STATIONS
CHARGING STATIONS
Butler robots automatically dock at the smart charging stations and recharge themselves, when they are idle or low on power. A full charge of 30 minutes ensures upto 8 hours of operation.
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P-P STATIONS
PICK-PUT STATIONS
Ergonomically designed Pick-Put Stations(PPS) ensure high-speed pick, put and audit processes. Each PPS facilitates error-free order fulfillment operations aided by GreyOrange’s proprietary Pick-Put-To-Light (PPTL) technology and light pointer.
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MOBILE STORAGE UNITS
MOBILE STORAGE UNITS
MSUs are storage racks that enable dynamic re-slotting and ensure up to 50% higher volumetric storage utilization. MSUs are available in over 300 variants and each with capacity of 1.98 cbm and can store big and small cases, individual items, apparel, and many more types of payload.